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MODULE 4

A MIND BODY APPROACH TO ENERGY & FATIGUE

In Module 4, we turn our attention to the all important topics of energy and fatigue. For many reasons, fatigue can gradually creep into our clients’ lives and undermine their quality of life in a big way. In this module, we’ll explore the multifactorial reasons why energy can dissipate over time – and how to help our clients regain their vitality.

You’ll discover how fatigue can be driven by the foods we eat, the thoughts we think, the beliefs we hold, and the hidden factors in our environment that can impact our metabolism. And you’ll dive into the secret influences our relationship with food has on our energy levels.

In this module, you’ll discover the most effective protocols and mind-body strategies that can help our clients have more energy. To this end, you’ll learn the maps, tools, protocols, distinctions and techniques to help us work with the fatigued client.

Additionally in this module, you’ll learn about the fascinating “11 Phases of Nourishment” – a powerful psychological map that helps us understand our journey with food and body.

And finally, we focus on a number of important counselor tools and guiding stars that are designed to help us achieve practitioner excellence.

So let’s get started!

As always, please start with your Overview Video below, and then work your way through all your module videos, exercises, and quiz.

Overview Video

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Greetings. Once again, friends. Mark David here, founder of the institute. Here we are. Here you are, and we are at the halfway point in our training. So I know you've been working hard, I know you've been learning a lot. Congratulations thus far on your great efforts and your commitment to this work and to yourself. I trust and I hope you're being kind to yourself and that you're celebrating and honoring how you're showing up the steps that you're taking to learn this body of work and everything you're doing to make yourself a better and wiser person on the journey to being a great coach, a great counselor, or a great teacher, whatever it is. Maybe it's all of those for you. Now, the condition or the challenge that we're going to be looking at in these next series of conversations is energy and fatigue. What a great and important topic. We need energy. Energy is life. So we might as well make sure we cultivated in the best way possible. So admission, you're gonna hear me probably say, uh, say this about every single topic we cover, but this is one of my favorites. And you know, they're all my favorites for different reasons. I think energy and fatigue is one of the biggest challenges of our times. I find that people who tend to have a lot of energy oftentimes actually want more. I find people who used to have a lot of energy want more, and I find that my clients who come to see me, even if it's for weight loss, even if it's for overeating or binge eating, so many of the clients I work with have this secondary complaint of, I'm tired, I'm fatigued, I don't have the energy I used to have. Interesting challenge. So one of the things that we're focusing on is remembering that even though your clients come to see you for one condition, let's say weight loss, if you help them with their secondary complaints, this is very important like energy or with digestion or mood issues, then we can consider that a success even though they came for another reason. And it's always a great sign when we help someone with their secondary complaint because it means we're on the right track. That's how healing and transformation happens. It's not always a direct shot, right to the problem. Sometimes we have to clear other things up first before the primary complaint gets cleared up. So before a person's primary challenge unwinds, we do have to check out some of the little pieces, some of the other places. So as you help your client do core practices such as slowing down with food, relaxing de-stressing with meals, working on macronutrient balance, working on eating rhythm, as you help your clients unwind, they see small successes along the way and that strengthens the relationship between you and your client. The small successes, you've heard me say this, but I'm gonna constantly remind you because these are what inspires you and your client to continue the work together. So my friends energy and fatigue are a huge challenge of our times and I'm excited for you, excited for us because the information you're gonna hear when it comes to energy and fatigue, I would like to say is effective, is results oriented, is easy to practice. And for so many people it works. So we're combining a mind body nutrition approach. Once again, with dynamic eating psychology, you will be learning some extremely useful distinctions. In fact, there's a good chance you are going to be able to help your clients in ways that they haven't been helped before. That to me is because at the very least, we're going to learn how to look at the fatigue that a lot of people suffer from as a divine symptom, as a messenger, from body wisdom, as a gift from the universe, as a deeper wisdom that's here to teach us some important life lessons. Perhaps lessons about food, perhaps lessons about the body, perhaps lessons about life. So instead of fighting fatigue, which is what so many people are doing, instead of fighting fatigue, we first have to learn to embrace it. Believe it or not, and I kid you not, we have to learn to listen to it because low energy is always talking to us. My friends is teaching us something. It has something to say. Our job as practitioners is to help our clients in this way, to be translators for that information that's coming from the universe, coming from body wisdom about their fatigue. Now, I'd love to share with you one nugget, one nugget in advance just to get us warmed up. But you're gonna hear about when we're diving into energy and fatigue, and it's this, I want you to train your clients, to coach your clients, to make fatigue, their guru, to make it a great teacher. In fact, they're gonna learn with your help to manage the energy that they already have, no matter how low. It's because before you start looking to have more energy, you have to learn how to manage even the smallest amount of energy. Even if you're fatigued. How do you deal with their energy? How do you parcel your energy out? How do you rest? How do you take care of yourself during the day? How do you nourish yourself? How do you not overwork? How do you not over caffeinate? Uh, you know, most of us are trying to create more energy from the outside in. Meaning what do I eat? What super duper energy drink do I take? How much coffee? What supplements to take? Which drugs? You know, how do I put something in me so I have more energy? Now that's fine, I do that myself. Makes perfect sense. It's an okay strategy, except When it isn't, because that's the one strategy so many people use. In fact, when that's the only strategy we use for energy, we can easily burn ourselves out. Perhaps you've had that experience. So of course we're going to look at and dive into all the other great strategies and distinctions for your clients in terms of diet, meal timing, macronutrient balance, food, allergies, food quality, nutrient deficiencies, sleep, exercise, and the mental, emotional, personal realm such as toxic nutritional beliefs, stuck emotions, past hurts lots more that can affect our level of energy, our perceived level of energy. Now let's move on for a second. We're also in these next series of conversations, we're gonna talk about something I call the phases of nourishment. Uh, and I think you're gonna love this. Really, really love this topic. So the phases of nourishment, and there are 11 of them, are essentially the different cycles we go through when it comes to our relationship with food, meaning you and I, most people, we go through our seasons, you know, just as the earth has its seasons, you and I have our seasons, we have our rhythms, we have our moods, our daily, weekly, or monthly rhythms. And then there are some very interesting phases or cycles or rhythms that we go through emotionally and physiologically in terms of diet, in terms of how we see food, in terms of how it impacts us on a metabolic biochemical level, for example. Okay, sometimes you might find that you're in a cleansing phase, or you might find you're in a building phase. We might be more in an anything goes phase, or we might be in a phase with food where nothing seems to work. So you're gonna learn about the 11 phases of nourishment and you will likely, likely be able to identify where you or your client are at in terms of the 11 phases of nourishment, which is, you're gonna see it's a huge help and brings a lot of insights and understand and explains a lot of things. So the 11 phases of nourishment can help you start to identify why your client is behaving, how they behave around food, why they have the challenges that they have right now. Um, by the way, I trust that you're learning in this training, that whatever's going on with your client, we make it right, meaning if it's happening, then it has a reason. If it's happening, it has a wisdom to it rooted somewhere in biology or psychology or both. So as always, we're not looking to see how do I fix my poor broken client? Of course, I wanna make sure my client has less pain, less discomfort, less overeating, less weight, less whatever They want, and more whatever they want. Yes. But the way to get there is once again, first and foremost, welcome the symptom. Welcome the challenge, sit down with it at the table, first and foremost, get to know it, listen to it, embrace it. From there, good things can happen. I hope you're learning that. We're also gonna cover some counselor tools, tricks, and shortcuts in this next series of conversation. These are some of my personal favorites, my personal greatest hits. This will be a, a really nice resource for you to work with clients and be able to have more tools in your bag of tricks that can help you further the action. And hopefully by now you're starting to own the material that you're learning, meaning you're beginning to take the things that have inspired you, pieces of information, some wisdom, some insights, or perhaps the strategies or protocols that have moved you and you're putting into practice with yourself and with others. If you're already seeing clients, I think we need to live and breathe what we learn in terms of what moves us in order to make it our own and to begin to make it part of who we are. 'cause clients pick up on that. So much of our development, by the way, as practitioners is practicing and practicing just doesn't mean with clients. Even though it does practice can mean in, in your casual conversations with people, you might play with the material, you might be speaking some of the principles that you're learning to friends or loved ones, not trying to coach them or fix them just in, in conversation. They might think you're really smart, they might think you're weird. Whatever it is, it's a beautiful opportunity for you to try on what you're learning and practice making it your own, using your language. It's a beautiful opportunity to indeed see how you language, how you language and present things in a way that lands, you know, chances are when I communicated something to you, it landed for you. Now, granted, you're open, you're paying money for this, you wanna learn it, but it's always your job and my job to communicate what we're trying to say in a way that makes sense for the other person that impacts them in a good way. And if what I say is not landing for them, it might be how I'm presenting it, or it just might be that the person we're speaking with just isn't ready to hear what we have to say.
But I would always love for you to assume that you can
probably communicate just a little better when you are not feeling that you are being heard or understood. 'cause sometimes it's the words, sometimes it's our energy. We're not gonna always be perfect. Sometimes it's the internal place we're coming from that just needs a little shift, just needs a little tweak. The work is very magical in that way. Sometimes we might have to be more intellectually clear, meaning more explanation, more simple science, more strong and coherent in how we present something. So it comes across intellectually sound to certain people. Sometimes it just might be that we have to fluff the pillows a little more with the person we're talking with. You know, we might need to be a little more soft, more inviting, so that they can feel comfortable and less activated so they can relax into what we have to say. You know, oftentimes we're learning material here that can be very confronting for people, that can be intense for them. I'm assuming you've had that experience with some of the material. It could be confronting, it could be intense, and it goes counter to what your client has been thinking and feeling and believing and learning. Chances are for decades or a lifetime, for example, for example, weight loss isn't about eating less and exercising more. People believe that, and it'll blow their minds when you tell them different. When people hear that it can, it can just be such a brain bender. It might not make any sense for them. In other words, it can be an upset for them. So with that in mind, how do we deliver what we wanna say in such a way that our client can take a deep breath and let it in?
We're never gonna make, we're never trying
to make our clients wrong. We're never trying to defend our position. I'm never trying to prove something to anyone. By the way, our job is to uplift. Our job is to inspire. Our job is to elevate people. Our job is to share information in a way that learns. So we're trying to share wisdom, insights, facts, thoughts that have impacted us, that have touched us, and now we're trying to light someone else's candle. Really, it's that simple in concept. Now, as much as we have been gathering up all kinds of information and learning all kinds of tools and techniques, I want to suggest that you can trust that by the end of this training, it's going to come together for you. I know a lot of times it's easy for us to get a little antsy because I wanna immediately know, well, well, well, how do I work with this and how do I work that and how do I fix this, and how do I fix that? So this is all I'm saying is a good time to remind ourselves. I'm reminding you, reminding me, let's just relax once again into the work. Let's relax into the learning experience. Let's relax into the journey with our clients. Because your client really, truly on one level, has all the keys inside them for their wholeness. You in many ways are just helping them unlock the door. Yes, you're giving them tools, insights, you're giving them guidelines, you're giving them course corrections. You are giving them inspiration, but your client comes locked and loaded with the energy and the essence of what they need to transform. Now, you're also going to hear me speak in these next conversations more about intuition, because I would love for you to start to trust in your inner guidance more, particularly if you're the kind of person that doesn't trust in your intuitive guidance. Because in a lot of ways, that's the name of the game here. This is one of the biggest skills that you actually already have, whether you know it or not. And I mean that nobody needs, and I really feel this to teach you intuition. You actually know it already. You've been learning it since you've been alive. And this is, I believe by far and away one of the most underrated skills that a good practitioner, teacher, coach, counselor, will ever possess. Our intuition, we can also say our instinct, our hunches. I'm gonna use those interchangeably. That's a part of who you are, is those flashes that come where you just know something or you just sense something or you got a good strong hunch. 'cause a lot of times, my friends, it's a higher wisdom coming through us. It's a beautiful intelligence that we don't always honor enough. And oftentimes it's the kind of knowing that we might even push aside that we just don't wanna believe. Well, oh God, no, I can't say that. You know, you get a good intuitive hit. Oh no, no, no, no, that's too out there. That's too crazy. That's too edgy. But meanwhile, you're thinking it, and meanwhile, there's a part of you that just might want to say it. Part of you that just might wanna share it. That's what I would love for you to begin to experiment with, to exercise your intuitive muscles even more. You can do that with clients, you can do that with your friends. Take risks, do that with your loved ones. Take risks with your intuitions. What are, what's popping up for you? Even in a social conversation with someone you don't, you don't know, and you feel like saying something, check it out, experiment with it. Check it out with the person or whoever you're with. Hey, here's this idea here. Here's this thought that keeps popping into my head. And see if your intuition was correct. Check it out afterwards. See how the person reacts. My friends? It ain't perfect. It's all about trial and error. Trial and success. Chances are, I'm gonna bet that your, your intuition is probably right. No, who knows, maybe 75% of the time. It's one intuitive hit that you have with a client that can make an absolutely huge difference in your work with them. This happens a lot with me, but intuition comes at a price. And the price is you and I being willing to risk you. Being willing to risk, sometimes looking silly or just being wrong, which can certainly happen. It happens. It's okay. So part of you jumping onto the intuition bandwagon is ah, beginning to trust yourself more, to trust your natural gift, beginning to trust that even if you are off, you can return to center. It's okay, you're forgiven, but trust that there's a wisdom that's encoded inside you. Maybe it's in our DNA, maybe it's in our soul, maybe it's our brain. Who knows? Maybe it's all of it. Oftentimes, not always. Intuition is actually where the action is. It's gonna ask you to step out on a limb. It's gonna ask you to be a little bold, a little courageous, a little bit of an experimenter, a scientist, an explorer. Let's see what happens. Now, I do wanna remind all of us that this kind of work in a certain way is risky. And by that I mean it's a risk for our ego. Your client's gonna be fine. Really, they're gonna be fine. The risk that we are in is that as professionals, we're often in the unknown when it comes to what to do with our client. We're in the dark. We're in the dark, and we're on a journey and we don't know what's next with our client, but we're willing to use the tools that we have, and we're also willing to go into new turf, a new territory. We're willing to be in uncertainty, remember, because it's our ability to navigate within that uncertainty that can make good things happen. The idea is to learn over time, to be in the unknown with a quiet confidence, with trust, with faith, with a smile, and with the knowing that, hey, I've got a toolkit. I'm developing my toolkit even more. You know, I've got certain gifts, I've got some skills, I have some talents that I actually come locked and loaded and born with. And you know what? I'm a genuinely caring person and that's what's going to help me help others. That's the head space I'm inviting you into. So as you trust that more and more, your coaching muscles gonna get stronger. You can't help anyone when you're sitting around thinking, I can't help anyone. You only have to be one step, one step ahead of the person that you're helping in order to help them. You can help others if you're open to the possibility that indeed you can, again, one step ahead of that person and you could be of assistance to them at any given time. So we're learning how to trust who is showing up in our world in terms of our clients trust, who shows up in your practice trust, who shows up in your office because that client, you found them and they found you. They're here for a reason and whatever that reason is, they're here to teach you and we're here to teach them. Now, you know this, sometimes the lessons we're here to teach each other might be a little challenging. Sometimes the lessons that you learn between you and your client are just really sweet and easy and positive. Your client gets help. They have more energy, they feel better, they lose weight. Whatever it is, they're in a better mood. And it's a big love fest. I love when I have clients like that. It worked. It was easy. And sometimes we work with a client and we don't get the kind of success that that we want. I might get disappointed because, hey, you know, I did my best. I tried everything. I didn't get the outcome that my client wanted. We didn't hit the stated goal. And in my experience, I've learned to always remind myself that in our work with a client, seeds are being planted. We're planting seeds. You truly don't know how. The work that you do with a client today will impact them and sprout in the future. Even if your only, even if your client only sees you for one session and they quit, you might have said one thing that you have no recollection of that's going to carry on with them and through them and sprout inside sometimes maybe years later. And they'll say to themselves one day, oh my goodness, that's what she meant when she said that. I get it now. I need to do that. I need to put that into practice. That makes total sense. Now, we have to trust that when we speak the truth with love, when you speak the truth with consciousness, it's always gonna be heard on some level, even if it doesn't look like it. And trust that when you're coming from those good intentions, oftentimes that's the best we can do. You've done everything in your power, and that's what's going to lead you on the road to success no matter what happens. So my friends, I'm excited for you to dive into the material. I'm especially excited for you to learn about energy and fatigue. You're gonna come through with some great information, and as always, I appreciate you being on this journey with me. I appreciate all your hard work, all your sincere efforts, and I shall see you on the other side.
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SECTION 1

Phases of Nourishment

SECTION 2

Energy & Fatigue

SECTION 3

Counselor Tools & Guiding Stars

Journaling
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